Working with street children
1993; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/096145249100076911
ISSN1364-9213
AutoresTom Scanlon, Francesca Scanlon, Maria Luiza Nobre Lamarao,
Tópico(s)Youth, Drugs, and Violence
ResumoIn September 1990 we became involved with the Centre for the Defence of the Child (CDM) in Brazil, hoping to participate in a survey of the lives of street children that was being conducted by the group. The CDM, a branch of its parent organisation The Young Street Vendors' Association, takes on individual cases of street children, providing crisis management with social, psychological, and legal support. It was decided to start a project of regularly taking a team of staff on to the streets and into the areas where the street children were, with the aim of providing a programme of support and self-esteem building, principally for the street girls. This project proved a success with the street children and remains so following our departure from Brazil.
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